Originally Posted by
cbn42
I think it just has to do with the fast-paced New York lifestyle. In Smalltown USA, where the desk clerk is sitting there with nothing to do, perhaps he will make the effort to check if there are rooms available. In New York, where the clerk is stressed out after an hourlong commute to work and has a line of people waiting, it's easier to just say no and move on.
Yeah because in Atlanta or LA or Seattle or Denver or Dallas, nobody commutes more than 2 minutes to work and hotels basically run themselves without any employees doing much of anything all day except waiting for the odd customer to check in or out. You figured it out!